October 23-25: Fauré Conference—University of Washington

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"David Korevaar is a pianist of ample technical facility and an enormous range of color. I was expecting more of the latter than we get here, but he holds back on any undue sense of display or impressionistic attitudes and gives us fairly clean, unadulterated Hindemith, which in these pieces serves us and the composer quite well. It is almost useless to compare the earlier Gould recordings, as severely delightful as they are, or even the recent Hyperion collection of the Sonatas with Markus Becker, perhaps the best-sounding Hindemith piano disc to date, because Korevaar’s conception is so diametrically opposed to either of these gentlemen. The sound here is excellent, very warm and enveloping, and this suits the temperament of the performances perfectly, which are direct and highly communicative and intimate. Superb work all the way around, and few recordings are so easily recommendable." | full review

"I found the piano sonatas on this set to be both well constructed technically and warm in feeling and scope. Perhaps this comes from pianist Korevaar’s wonderfully lyrical reading, full of nuance and played in a singing style..." | full review

"In these vibrant performances these works come across as abounding in character and craft. The Second Sonata is a beguiling gem and the brawny First and elaborate Third, with its bold final fugue, deserve to be heard more. Mr. Korevaar also includes Hindemith’s brash, impish Suite for Piano “1922” (written that year), with movements inspired by a shimmy and ragtime. Hindemith disavowed the piece after arriving in American in 1940. He was wrong: Just listen to Mr. Korevaar’s compelling performance." | full review